CPT violation does not lead to violation of Lorentz invariance and vice versa |
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Authors: | Masud Chaichian Alexander D. Dolgov Victor A. Novikov Anca Tureanu |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland;2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy;3. Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy;4. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 113259 Moscow, Russia |
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Abstract: | We present a class of interacting nonlocal quantum field theories, in which the CPT invariance is violated while the Lorentz invariance is present. This result rules out a previous claim in the literature that the CPT violation implies the violation of Lorentz invariance. Furthermore, there exists the reciprocal of this theorem, namely that the violation of Lorentz invariance does not lead to the CPT violation, provided that the residual symmetry of Lorentz invariance admits the proper representation theory for the particles. The latter occurs in the case of quantum field theories on a noncommutative space–time, which in place of the broken Lorentz symmetry possesses the twisted Poincaré invariance. With such a CPT-violating interaction and the addition of a C-violating (e.g., electroweak) interaction, the quantum corrections due to the combined interactions could lead to different properties for the particle and antiparticle, including their masses. |
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Keywords: | Quantum field theory CPT symmetry Lorentz invariance violation |
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